Monday 10 February 2025
THE General Synod meets next week at a time of soul-searching for the Church of England. That much is obvious. It is the first meeting since the publication of the Makin report and the resignation of the Archbishop of Canterbury
07 Feb 2025
RESPONDING to last year’s General Synod debate on clergy pay and pensions, and requests that the Church Commissioners enable them to rise, the First Commissioner, Alan Smith, reminded the Synod of what had happened in 1992 when — in the later words of the Commons’ Social Security Committee — the Commissioners had “done more than any other single act to destroy the parish system of the national Church”
31 Jan 2025
A CEASEFIRE in Gaza has finally come about — in spite of the continued Israeli shelling after the announcement, the nail-biting vote in the Israeli Cabinet, and the 11th-hour “technical reasons” that, Hamas said, were holding up the release of hostages
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